Book
Excavations at Wari, Ayacucho, Peru
Published for the Dept. of Anthropology, Yale University, by the Yale University Press • (49) • Published In 1953 • Pages: 121 , plates
By: Bennett, Wendell Clark.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report of Bennett's 1950 summer excavation at the Huari site. Although Tello rediscovered the site in the 1930s, he did not publish his material. Bennett excavated selected areas around the site, uncovering 62,000 sherds from 21 pits in three sites, Huari, Conchopata, and Acuchimay. He describes the stratigraphy of each excavation and reports on building structures and construction. He identifies six major ceramic styles: Plainware, Redware, Blackware, Bichrome, Polychrome, and Polychrome Fine. Bennett considered Huari a local phenomenon, unaware of its full regional extent. Unfortunately he got the sequences wrong, which later scholars had to correct. The ceramic styles he discusses in the last chapter as external to the Huari are now considered part of the Huari Middle Horizon Empire.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Comparative evidence
- Ceramic technology
- Masonry
- Miscellaneous structures
- Visual arts
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huari
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Horizon
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Huari, Mantaro Basin, Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wendell C. Bennett
- Issued in single cover with no. 50 of the series
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 54008878
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities--Peru